Improvement in compresses



- UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

AUGUSTE A. LELIEVRE, or OHATOU, NEAR PARIS, FRANCE.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMPRESSES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 160,830, dated March 16, 1875; application filed August 22, 1874.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, AUGUSTE AMABLE LE- LIIEVRE, of Ohatou, near Paris, France, have invented a new kind of Poultice or Compress;

and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention consists in arranging between two wadding-sheets a layer of mucilage made of Faces crispus or Irish moss. The whole is, by desiccation, transformed into a sort of pasteboard, which can be cut out by means of scissors into square, rectangular, or other bands.

My said poultice or compress is liable to readily be softened by water being applied thereto and yet preserve its mucilage. It can be used as an advantageous substitute for the poultice, the compress-linen and binding-bands being as usually employed.

I, therefore, claim this new product, which a I designate by the name lichenized wadding,

for preparing which I proceed as follows: I divide the Wadding into two, and, the mucilage being prepared by infusion in the hot state of the Faces crispus, I spread the same on either of the two divided sheets by means of a flat suitable brush. When the layer of mucilage is sufficiently thick I lay over it the second sheet, the whole being slightly compressed by a wood roller. It is then carried to a stove-room and desiccated at a temperature 

